Whether it is whole hairy crabs or cut pieces of hairy crabs,calculated from the time when boiling water is added to the pot, the total steaming time should not be less than 15 minutes, because it takes about 15 minutes to kill parasites or disease-causing microorganisms, and this time will not lead to the aging of the crab meat.

Steaming hairy crab method:

1, steam hairy crab before, first with a small brush to clean hairy crab crab shells and crab legs, and put into the water to raise half a day, so that it drain the belly of the filth, can be used before steaming will be the amount of white wine poured on the live crab slightly marinated in better taste.

2, before steaming with a rope will be hairy crab chelipeds tied, to prevent the process of steaming chelipeds off, crab oil out of the crab. If you use straw to wrap the whole crab, it will keep the fresh flavor.

3. Put some water in the bottom of the pot and steam the crab for 15-20 minutes. It is not advisable to open the lid during the steaming process, and it is important to steam through at once, otherwise the flavor of the crab will be affected. In the process of steaming, you can put the ginger patted and diced into the vinegar, and when it is steamed, you can dip it into the vinegar and eat it.

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Crab Selection Tips:

High-quality hairy crabs have four main characteristics: green back, yellow hair, golden claw and white belly. The back of the high brightness and light, and good hardness; turn over the navel can be seen inside the full through red, the abdomen of the two red spots the deeper the color of the crab yolk and crab paste the more fertile. Fine selection of crab to "five see":

1, look at the crab shell

Where the back of the shell is black-green, with a bright light, are meat thick and strong; the back of the shell was yellow, most of the more thin and weak.

2, look at the navel

Navel convex out, a fat fat fat full; concave in, most of the fat body insufficient.

3, look at the chelipeds

Where the chelipeds on the velvet tufts, chelipeds old and healthy; and chelipeds without velvet, the body is soft.

4, look at the vitality

The crab will be turned around, abdomen to the sky, can quickly turn back with the stinging foot flick, strong vitality, can be preserved; can not be turned back, the vitality of the poor, can not be stored for a long time.

5, see the male and female

Lunar August and September to pick female crabs, September after the selection of male crabs, because male and female crabs in the two times respectively gonadal ripening, the taste of the best nutrition.

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